Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beirut last week, the real issues of international understanding were plainly too hot to handle. The best that a disillusioned Frenchman in downtown Beirut could say of those who kept hands off: "Ah, ces Unescans! Ces gens sans race, sans couleur et sans sexe...
...terrifying paradox of the whole thing is this: Harlem itself, and every individual Negro in it, is a living condemnation of our so-called 'culture.' Harlem is there by way of a divine indictment against New York City and the people who live downtown and make their money downtown. The brothels of Harlem, and all its prostitution, and its dope rings, and all the rest are the mirror of the polite divorces and the manifold cultured adulteries of Park Avenue: they are God's commentary on the whole of our society. "Harlem is, in a sense, what...
...weekly coaches' luncheon in Dinty Moore's downtown emporium, Valpay called Houston, "as good a tackle as there is in the East" in his final talk to local sportswriters...
...such towns were already being planned, native industries had been developed, unemployment was down 25%. As tourist bait, the government had started building broad avenues and pavilions for next year's International Exposition at Port-au-Prince, and a new law required businessmen in the. capital's downtown district to install glass show windows and hang out electric signs...
Neither the Truman nor Wallace forces have announced any plans for a last-minute plea to College voters. The Wallaceites will join a parade tonight in downtown Boston, however...